ART AND ARTISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 32

ART AND ARTISTS.

A photograph of the r Qneen in state dress has been taken by M. Wallerig. t The photograph,.by a process of M^Wallerig's, has the appearance of an etching. -,- -;, ; .• . ' A 'reproduction 'of the 'beautiful marble statue of the Queen, now at -Windsor, has beeri made for presentation to Madras. The cost is being borne by a native in honour of the Jubilee. • 1.1 > - 1 . " Mr Alma Tadema's health has,' it is said, been seriously 'affected by a paint used in the decorations of one of the rooms in his new house, and he will not be ' able to continue his artistic labours, for some time- to come. According to' the will of the late Sir Joseph, Whitworth, those of the' pictures he has collected which have beeri painted by Members or Associates of tKe Eoyal' Academy are, after the death of Lady 'Whitworth, to become the property of the Manchester Corporation. . „,''•' Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson), painter of /the " Roll Call " and,, other military subjects, is living in a quiet, spot in Brittany, where she is busy with a picture for the Academy (May) of " The March of our Troops through the Desert." It is not often that' an artist's son is himself an artist. ■ Mr Philip Burne-Jones is treading very successfully; , in his father's footsteps, without at all imitating his father's work. His first- private view took place last week, and the two pictures he exhibited are not merely full of promise, but show a distinct feeling for beauty, and a delicate sense of romance. will appear in the Grosvenor Gallery this year, and .are sure to excite much attention. ; , . A colossal statue of General Gordon, is to be erected in front of the art gallery, Aberdeen. The clay model has .already been completed by Mr T. Stuart JBurnett. The Sovereign of this land is ever heaping up wealth in the shape of art treasures, modern mementoes, and ancient interest and value. ' The two latest additions to her Majesty's collection are the ■ trowel and mallet, both of costly material, with which she laid the new law courts at Birmingham, and the valuable diamond signet of Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I." — Home paper. Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson) has illustrated her husband's, General Sir W. 1\ Butler's, new book, " The Campaign of the Cataracts," an account of the wretched Soudan business. ' A quaint collection of celebrated artists' palettes is owned by a Parisian /connoisseur, who intends to bequeath", it to the State. Scarcely one eminent French painter belonging to the latter part' of this century is unrepresented — Ingress and the naturalist chief, Manet, excepted— and the palettes curiously indicate the owners', character. Landscape painters prefer the square palette; historical and tjenre artists , choose the ordinary round form. Corot's palette is a mass of soft tints, like the artist's . pictures, gray, yellow, silvery white prevailing ; while bright reds and blues stand out on Isabey's palette, encircling a sketch of a court lady in Henry ll's time. The battle painters, Detaille and de Neuville, arrange ,, their colours with military precision, and sketch some soldierly form on their, palette, ; like that of their comrade, Berne-Bellecouf, where, bluish-green tints take the lead, and a .kneeling chasseur peeps out from the midst. A heterogeneous mass of colours distinguishes the palette of Theodore Eousseau, resembling 'the trunk of an old tree on one of his works ; while one of the most interesting specimens t is Gustave Dore's huge palette, which bears a longnecked stork, perched on an Alsatian chimney, and is signed -with a regretful souvenir of my dear province. The collection has been in progress for 20 years, arid is a per- , feet museum of French contemporary art,— Toronto Globe. DECORATIVE ART. " Oh where are you going my dear little maid ?" " To the school o' fine arts, if you please,'* she said. " To learn how to paint on china and glass, On velvet and satin, silk, linen, 1 and, brass ; On -wood, tin, and canvas, on matting and zinc, Slate,, marble,' and tiles, and leather, jthink. I have already painted^a screen and three plaques, A whole set of dishes and two little racks, A stand for umbrellas— A lovely one, too, ■ ' ' ( . With a ground of sienna And bands of light blue; And cat-tails a dozen, so straight and' erect, Growing up all around with artistic effect. There are other' things, too, which I can't stop to tell. . . , But I think for six lessons I've'doiie very well." —St. Nicholas.